Rivet holder



E. N. OVE

RIVET HOLDER Nov. 26, 1929.

Filed April 16, 1928 gwue'nto'a Eta ward JV. Ozre,

Patented Nov. 26, 1929 rarest orgies EDWARD N. OVE, F Dl KE, IOWA RIVET HOLDER Application filed April 16,

My invention relates to improvements in rivet holders, and the object of my improvement is to supply for this purpose a simple, convenient and adjustable device of'this class, adaptable for holding rivets for different kinds of metal constructions, and also operable by one hand of the operator.

I have accomplished this object by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figs. 1 and 2 are elevations of one of my tools as differently adjusted relatively to constructions to be riveted.

My improved rivet holder includes an elongated handle 1, which may be tubular and have an end cap closure threaded thereon, as indicated at 2. The handle 1 may have a fork 3 either integral therewith, or provided with a stem united with and inserted in the open end of the handle. The furcations of the fork are flat and parallel and provided with longitudinally spaced and alined holes as at 10 and 23, and others at the terminations of the furcations to receive pintles 5 and 9, in adjusted relations, and detachably secured by splitins.

p Between the terminations of the furcations of the fork 3 is medially pivotally mounted so on a pintle 5 a flat shank of a terminally cupped enlarged rivet holder 6, the opposite end of the shank 4 projecting oppositely from the furcations andhaving a terminal bearing hole.

A pintle 9 traverses the medial holes 23, as shown in Fig. 1, and on the middle of the pintle is pivotally mounted between the furcations 3 a flattened arm 8 whose outer termination 14 is made cylindrical and hollow to seat therein a detent member 16 secured removably by a split-pin 15. A pair of links 11 pivotally connect the outer ends of the pintle 12 in the outer termination of the holder shank 4 and the middle part of the arm 8 on a pintle 13, so that the parts 4 and 8 are always parallel while in this arrangement. The links may have medial holes 18 to receive the pintle 13 for a different adjustment of the holder 4 and the arm 8 to vary their scope of movements.

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The relative positions of the holder land 61 and the arm parts 8 and 16 may be also otherwise varied in use as follows.

The pintle 9 may be removed from the furcation'holes 23 and inserted in, the holes 10. In this arrangement the parts 1 and 8 are not always parallel, but as shown in said Fig. 2 are inclined relatively to each other when in one position as when operating between the flanges of a channel bar 22 or the like, where the cupped head 6 which fits the rounded rivet head of a rivet 7 is somewhat inclined to the flange abutting it, the inclined arm 8 being so tilted relatively to the part 4 that the diminished detent 16 with its terminal notch 17 and other roughening if any, engages the opposite inner angle between the opposite flange and web of the channel bar, the parts 6 and 16 by this adjustment of the pintle 9' being 7 brought closer together than possible with the adjustment of said parts shown in Fig. 1, where the maximum spread of said parts is permitted as when operating within a more widely spaced boxed column or the like 19 and 21, and where the rivet 7 is passed through registering rivet holes in the part 19 and an opposed angle bar 20 or other metal shape.

It will be seen that the detent 16 may be removed from its seat in the cylindrical part 14 of the arm 8, and another detent of a different length substit-ued to permit the tool to be used between other structures differently spaced. The links 11 serve to keep the holdei 46 and the arm-8 always in proper working relations, whereby the handle 1 may be actuated by one hand of the operator, permitting use of the tool in many constricted spaces,

' where otherwise both hands must be used to I keep the holder 6 engaged with the rivet 7 properly. The handle 1, when swung oppositely, by means of said links 11 retracts the parts 4 and 8 to permit them to be immediately released from the rivet head and the opposite abutment structure engaged by the detent 16.

Several detents 16 of various lengths may be stored in the hollow handle 1, when the cap 2 has been first removed and then replaced.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A device of the character described, comprising an elongated handle having terminal furoations, a rivet-holder medially pivoted between said fur-cations and having a cupped termination to fit upon a rivet-head, an arm having one end pivoted between said furcations for adj ustment lengthwise thereof, said arm having its opposite ends hollowed lengthwise, a terminally dentated engaging member removably secured in the hollowed end of said arm, projecting oppositely relative to the cupped'termination of said rivet-holder, and a link pivotally terminally connected to i the opposite end of said rivet-holder and having its opposite part adjustably pivoted to the middle part of said arm.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature.

EDWARD N. OVE. 

